THE MATRIX

of problems that make environmental sustainability complex & difficult....

Fall 2011

Student Loans
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/525/index.html

Audrey, The Matrix, Advertising

Audrey, The Matrix, Smart Grid

Blind Spot: Peak Oil!

Workweek Growth!

Corporate Campaign Financing!

Challenges in Environmental Education

Classic Activism and Change Resistance

Culture's Effect on Solid Waste Management

Weak Enforcement of Environmental Laws

Difficulty Establishing Links Between Health Problems and Environmental Exposures

The Jevons Paradox
(That increased technological efficiency in the use of a resource tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate at which that resource is consumed).

Rachel Neiman, "The Green Stamp"

Rachel Neiman, Recycling--Does it Really Help?

Beauvilliers - Matrix - Foreign Aid

Beauvilliers - Matrix - Hygiene

The Food Pyramid

Banning Trans Fats Kills Orangutans

Profit Motive

The Consumer

Green Sex

UnderwoodMatrix1_Colleges

UnderwoodMatrix2_Two Party Politics


GuillotMatrix1_StudentLoans
GuillotMatrix2_LEED

BarnardSarah_Cigarettes

BarnardSarah_Pharmaceuticals

JonesRuss-TheMatrixOne-US Congress
JonesRuss - TheMatrixTwo - Waste Removal

Heilmann_Hunting

Heilmann_Fur Coats

Hunt_Ben--TheMatrix1--Drill_Now
Hunt_Ben--TheMatrix2--Plastics

Hyland - The White Picket Fence

TonkelMatrix_1 - Slow Down
TonkelMatrix_2 - Sustainability of Research

StephanieCaouetteMatrix1_Hospital Waste

StephanieCaouetteMatrix2_Plastic Bags

Loeper,TheMatrix1
LoeperTheMatrix2

Helinski - Consumerism
Helinski - Antibiotics

Dominguez, Amanda - Matrix 1 - McDonaldization
Dominguez, Amanda - Matrix 2 - Fair Trade Coffee

Keating Matrix 1: Convenience of Packaged Goods
Keating Matrix 2: Biodiversity

Szarkowski: Matrix Pt.1: The environmental and social problems of high rise buildings
Szarkowski: Matrix Pt.2: Wilderness/building preservation efforts unintentionally fuel urban greenwashing

RichMichael_Matrix 1_Real Estate Development
RichMichael_Matrix 2_Construction Waste

ProsackHenry-Lawn Care
ProsackHenry-Rare Earth Metals

**BechtelMoney**
BechtelGameConsumption

Balducci - Celebrating Environmental Issues
Balducci How We Became Consumers

Acocella High Fructose Corn Syrup
Acocella Over Packaging

Dale- Toxic Assets
Dale- The Threat of Filibusters

Tedford - Fashion: A Very Vogue Sustainability Problem
Tedford - Having a Baby Changes Everything- Including the Environment

Houser - Unsustainable Research
Houser - Campaign Politics - An Unsustainable System

Kerr- The Waste Management Industry
Kerr - Government Subsidies

Chambers_Ciara - SDWA
Chambers_Ciara - Personal Care Products

RoveretoMark - Lack of Interdisciplinary Programs and Research in the University System
RoveretoMark - Economic Globalization: Power to the "People"

Davey_Matrix1: Value
http://sustainabilityproblems.wikispaces.com/Davey.Matrix_Movies

Scott - War

SchederPets
SchederLobbying